CITB Skills and Training Fund

The CITB Skills and Training fund enables medium-sized construction companies, with up to 250 directly-employed staff, to improve their training programmes. The fund helps employers meet the more complex needs of their developing business. There are many different types of training eligible for funding, including health and safety courses, plant and access equipment qualifications, and management and leadership training, the full list of grant eligible courses can be found on the CITB website.

Small and Micro Businesses

You can apply for the CITB Skills and Training fund if:

• you are a CITB-registered employer
• you have 1-99 directly employed staff on the payroll (employees must be in addition to yourself / business owner)
• any previous project paid for by the Skills and Training fund has been signed off as complete.

How much can you apply for

CITB-registered employers can apply for funding related to how many direct employees they have:

• Employers with 1 to 49 directly employed staff can receive up to £5000.
• Employers with 50 to 74 directly employed staff can receive up to £7500.
• Employers with 75 to 99 directly employed staff can receive up to £10000.

You can apply for funding once every 12 months. If you are not a CITB-registered employer, find out if you are eligible and complete the online application via the CITB website.

Medium Sized Businesses

You can apply for the CITB Skills and Training fund if:

• you are a CITB-registered employer
• you have between 100 and 250 directly-employed staff on the payroll
• any previous project paid for by the Skills and Training fund has been signed off as complete.

How much can you apply for

CITB-registered employers can apply for funding related to how many direct employees they have.

• between 100 and 149 directly-employed staff can receive up to £15,000.
• between 150 and 199 directly-employed staff can receive up to £20,000.
• between 200 and 250 directly-employed staff can receive up to £25,000.

You can apply for funding once every 12 months. If you are not a CITB-registered employer, find out if you are eligible and complete the online application via the CITB website.

Applying for the CITB Skills and Training Fund

Companies can apply on an annual basis to reflect their training needs. The application will be considered in line with CITB’s key objectives and there is a window of opportunity at the end of each month. Typically, CITB provide response the middle of the following month. Businesses will then typically receive part of the cost upfront for each eligible course, receiving the remaining grant payments on completion of training. This allows companies to invest in training, with financial support from CITB.

It’s important to note that only training that has not been booked or delivered can be included in the application.

How can Raeburn Training help?

Applying for the CITB Skills and Training fund is often an intensive, time consuming job for organisations. By utilising our expertise, we take on the time and effort required with minimal input from the customer. at key stages of the process to ensure we are meeting requirements. We offer a free consultation, thereafter, we charge a 10% consultancy fee based on the funding awarded to the customer.

We offer a free consultation, thereafter, we charge a 10% consultancy fee based on the funding awarded to the customer. For more information please email our Client Services Manager, Jen Hancock - [email protected].